Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:46:12

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
news:Xns96D1D280616A43v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 

> weirdwolf wrote:
> 
>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in 
>> news:Xns96D1D1937F4F93v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18:
>> 
>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>> news:Xns96D1D0A3877A93v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>>> 
>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in 
>>>>>> news:Xns96D1CBE8021173v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>> news:Xns96D1DC47D5B4Endtcm@ 68.1.17.6:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>> news:Xns96D1C5F8270393v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>>>>> news:Xns96D1C1C6CA6503v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> It's growing on me.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Favorite scenes in 2 & 3:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> a) Titus Pullo explaining women to Lucius Vorenus.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> b) Atia working out the order of suicide as the gates are
>>>>>>>>>>>>> about to be broken down.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Oh, and mmmmmmmmmNiobemmmmmmmm
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Did you miss the whole Rome thread we started yesterday or
>>>>>>>>>>>> is this a cunning plan to avoid my terrible Virgil based
>>>>>>>>>>>> pun? 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> (Mostly ignored, not having watched the episodes yet. What
>>>>>>>>>>> Virgil based pun?) 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> It was a reply to Nicks question of why they don't speak
>>>>>>>>>> Roman. 
>>>>>>>>>>  Go on, go and read the thread and you'll see just how 
>> embaressed
>>>>>>>>>>  I am 
>>>>>>>>>> about it
>>>>>>>>>>  Ted
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Is that what that was?  You could take lessons on being dumb
>>>>>>>>> from me. 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> My first thought then was another pun on the lines of.
>>>>>>>>  Ee trust can teach me how to be as dumb as a Roman.
>>>>>>>>  Ted
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> (Was the other pun as lame as that one?)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ((What rhymes with Tarquinius Superbus?))
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Well seeming as nobody else is going to ask..<sigh>
>>>>>> What rhymes with Tarquinius Superbus?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't know. I was trying to come up with a counter-pun to Ee
>>>>> trust can. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> (T.S. = last of the traditional Etruscan kings? Mythical rape of
>>>>> Lucrecia by Tarquinius Sextus? Overthrow by the Brutii? Anyone?
>>>>> Anyone? Bueller?) 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> It's not as funny if you have to explain it :-|
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> D'oh!
>>> 
>> 
>> Gotcha. I'm sorry I couldn't resist.
> 
> On the subject of Rome, am I supposed to interpret that last scene as
> Titus Pullo trying to make off with the treasury? Because that would
> totally rock in a non-historical but amusing way.

Well lets see, babe, check, nifty wheels, check, oodles of cash, check.
 All he needed was a flash weapon that could make things explode and a 
swinging batchelor villa and he was set for life.
               
> (Historical version: The idiots left all the money behind.)

Well they did think that they were going back. On a side note to this, 
considering the amount of gold back into a box that large the soldiers 
didn't seem to have much trouble shifting them around.
 Ted 



-- 
Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to 
hide the bodies

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